Hypnotherapy - An Integrated Approach

Hypnotherapy is an approach to overcoming everyday problems and limitations which takes account of all the ways we experience the world. It recognises that we respond to situations and events in a variety of ways - through our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts and our senses.

It acknowledges the importance of the unconscious as well as the conscious mind in moulding our beliefs and our personality and uses the power of the mind and the imagination in helping to bring about solutions to problems.

Often this also means overcoming limiting beliefs we have about ourselves and being clear that change is always possible.

Hypnotherapy differs from some other talking therapies in acknowledging that our feelings, memories, beliefs and desires are moulded by all our senses and therefore takes account of our faculties of sight, hearing and feeling in the treatments it offers.

Centrally, hypnotherapy is a method for treating the whole person and recognises that the mind and the body cannot be treated as separate entities. Mental, physical and emotional well-being all go hand in hand.

Careful Questioning

The treatments we offer and the techniques we use take a variety of forms spanning from careful questioning for bringing perspective to a problem to the use of deep relaxation to draw upon the resources of the unconscious mind.

We use a range of visual, auditory and physical exercises to help clients to tap into their own inner resources, to use their minds more flexibly and to deal more effectively with the stresses and demands of the modern world.

In tailoring the treatments we offer to the needs of the client we also draw upon techniques from other closely related fields such as NLP and Life Coaching.

Simple Visualisation

Hypnosis itself plays an important role in the sessions we offer, but not always in the way that people envisage. Hypnosis may sometimes take the form of a simple visualisation exercise or can involve deeper relaxation. The level will depend upon the nature of the problem and the goals which clients sets themselves.

Hypnosis can be used to communicate more directly with the unconscious mind in helping to overcoming a problem or limitation, or where the problem is more deep-rooted, to regress the client to earlier experiences which may be playing a part in their present problem. Often this latter form of regression is not required, but it can be helpful where a problem is persistent.

Self-hypnosis

Teaching clients the benefits of self-hypnosis can also be an important part of the treatment. Apart from seeking to resolve a problem it is our aim that clients should be able to take away a range of self-help techniques with them at the end of therapy which they can continue to use in their daily lives.

Overall we believe in an integrated approach and for those experiencing therapy the transition between techniques used will seem smooth and natural.